Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. (p. 194)
Quotes to Explore
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it.
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I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.
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Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. (p. 194)
